Full disclosure: I was born in 1982, 29 years after Rocky Flats began producing the plutonium triggers used in every weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. I grew up nearby and was aware of Rocky Flats as a looming local symbol of the Cold War. I did not know, however, about the secrecy surrounding the place in its early years, the 1989 FBI raid and subsequent grand jury investigation, or the alarming extent of the plant’s environmental contamination. Iverson combines a skillfully researched narrative of Rocky Flats’ troubled history with a memoir of her own coming-of-age that mentions many familiar places. This is a story that deserves a wide audience.

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